Dominique de Soras, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of MHB, remarked: "This project is the first TLP to be deployed in Malaysia and the third floating platform for deepwater fields in the country.

Dominique de Soras joined Coflexip in the late 1980s as a Project Manager, before becoming Deputy General Manager for Coflexip Norway.Following the merger with Stena Offshore, he moved to Aberdeen to manage the Engineering Division and subsequently the design and build of the Deep Blue.In 2002, Technip acquired Coflexip Stena Offshore and Dominique de Soras was appointed CEO of the Offshore Operation.
In 2006, he re-located to Paris as Senior Executive Vice President of Technip's Oil and Gas Division.
In October 2007, Dominique de Soras was appointed Senior Vice President of the newly-created Subsea Division.

Dominique de Soras, formerly president of Technip's subsea division, was recently appointed managing director and CEO of MHB to inject fresh management expertise and improve the group's capabilities and efficiencies.

In the statement, MMHE managing director and chief executive officer Dominique de Soras said with the F14/F29 topsides, sub-structure and process module contract, the company would have two projects being fabricated simultaneously at its West Yard, the other being the Gumusut-Kakap Floating Production System.

"The F14/F29 would enhance the production of gas in Sarawak as these structures would be installed at gas field located at a water depth of about 320 ft when they are completed in about a year's time," he said.